【If You Feel Responsible For Your Losses, You Are Sincere, But You Are Wrong】
When you win, you feel it proves your ability.
When you lose, you carry it as your responsibility.
You receive every single outcome as if it were your personal report card, and you swing up and down with each result.
If that sounds like you, there is something you need to know first.
You have been misunderstanding, from the beginning, the responsibility a trader is supposed to carry.
In this industry, common sense is often the exact opposite.
In the ordinary world, you are told to take responsibility for results.
But in trading, the responsibility for the result in front of you is not yours.
To put it correctly, you only need to take responsibility for your preparation and your long term consistency.
■ You Are Trying To Carry Responsibility You Cannot Carry
After you place an order according to your rules, whether it wins or loses has already left your hands, and the short term result is ruled by randomness.
In other words, individual wins and losses exist outside the area you can control.
Trying to take responsibility for something you cannot control is impossible from the start.
And yet every time you lose, you try to carry that outcome, the outcome you could not control, as your own responsibility.
That is why you suffer.
What a trader should truly be responsible for is not the result.
It is whether you defined and verified an edge in advance, whether you executed according to the rules, whether you repeated the same conditions consistently, and only that area you can control.
So what happens when you try to carry responsibility you cannot carry.
■ The More You Carry Responsibility That Is Not Yours, The More You Destroy The Responsibility That Is Yours
People who feel responsible for results try to somehow improve those results with their own power.
When losses continue, they become anxious, start modifying a tested system on the spot in the name of improvement, feel that the system has stopped functioning, and abandon it halfway.
And they feel as if they are "doing what needs to be done" or "taking a step forward."
But the result in front of you is nothing more than a tiny sample, and no matter how much you respond to that random result, the next result will also be random.
Improvement aimed at the result in front of you is not improvement.
It only destroys consistency and keeps you trapped forever in the improvement loop.
Notice this.
The biggest risk to you is not the market, and it is not the system.
Your own enthusiasm, the part of you that says "I want to win" and "I need to do something about this result," is the risk.
The more you try to carry responsibility that is not yours, responsibility for results, the more you ironically ruin with your own hands the preparation, execution, and consistency that were supposed to be your real responsibility.
■ "If You Do Not Take Responsibility For Results, Isn't That Just Irresponsible"
Here, many people will think this.
"If you do not take responsibility for results, isn't that just irresponsibility and an excuse.
If you are a professional, shouldn't you take responsibility for results."
That thought itself misunderstands the trader's job as guessing wins and losses.
It is true that traders are responsible for their own trading.
But that does not mean they are responsible for making the outcome of one trade in front of them obey their will.
It means they are responsible for building a state in which the long term result can be evaluated correctly when the same behavior is repeated.
What a trader should be responsible for is the preparation needed to make the long term result evaluable, and the consistent execution required for that.
Not how the one trade in front of them happens to end.
So what you need to let go of is responsibility for the outcome of the one trade in front of you.
And what you need to carry instead is the responsibility to put the long term result that appears after repeated behavior into a form that can be evaluated.
That means building a system with positive expectancy in advance, repeating the same behavior consistently regardless of the outcome, creating the conditions for probability to reveal itself across a large sample size, and drawing out the system's true edge.
The biggest shackle that prevents you from completing that work is responsibility for the win or loss of the one trade in front of you.
Real responsibility does not exist after the result in front of you appears.
It exists only in how far you prepared in advance, and whether you executed consistently, so that the long term result can be evaluated correctly.
■ When You Let Go, You Can Focus On Your Real Job
So let go of responsibility for wins and losses.
That is something you cannot control.
Instead, fulfill the only responsibility a trader truly carries.
Define an edge, verify it, execute according to the rules, and repeat the same conditions consistently.
But this does not mean telling yourself intellectually that "the result is not my responsibility" and forcing yourself not to care.
If you try to suppress it with willpower, when a losing streak or drawdown arrives, you will inevitably be shaken again.
You only become able to truly let go when, through testing and practice through your own hands, you have thoroughly verified your system in advance and understood from the bottom of your heart that losing streaks and drawdowns are also part of what forms the system's edge.
At that point, wins and losses are no longer something you are responsible for.
You become able to focus only on the work you are truly responsible for.
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